Show COW IS GREATEST PRODUCER it Is truly said that the he cow la Is mans greatest benefactor wind droughts and hoods floods may come destroy our crops and banish our hopes hut but from what Is left tile cow manufactures tile most nourishing and life sus foods for 2000 yearb silo tins fins shown her allegiance to roan man sharing aliko in his prosperity and adversity responding to nil all that was ft as done for her until through development she lias has become ns as nn an ocon economic omle ane tor ter in our national progress dairy communities anre rich corn com the cow products produces the lie most aud and bek food nt at the least cost she brings in a steady income silo converts cheap roughage rough linge into profit balms tho the farm worth orth more builds big fd ed burng und and good homes means living on the farm cow makes farm worth more there Is always an air of pernia u bince nce and prosperity about n R wellman well man dairy farm A ninn man feels independent when nhen lie ho khos hla his income is steady tile the dairy business Is a cash business it calls for intellectual activity the success of the man engaged in it depends upon hla his using his head developing his judgment dairying bullin up the farm it I 1 requires fewer acres to produce produs a good iving flying and consequently leads to closer neighbors and more thickly settled communities As land labor and feed Inc renso in y cx N 4 4 0 V man amr e V W eim W PA I 1 P 0 ak n 11 V thene ate growing into money for Us day and night and on n Sun sundays dayi price the cow will more find and more ills dis place tile the strictly ment meat producing farm she produces human food with grenter economy than does tile steer ateer sheep or pig the united states reamas for 1010 shows nix an increase of about 20 per cent in delry stock while tile the total number of nil all cattle has de tren sed it Is interesting to learn that lady oak a cow now owned by tho the experiment station in ono one ilay day produced in her milk nn an amount of human food equal to ft a calf weighing pounds in a bongs record this cow produced pounds of fat pounds of protein and 1052 1652 pounds of carbohydrates this product was equal to calam weighing pounds ench each or calves weighing 2 pounds each 28 yearlings yearnings year lings weighing ailing pounds each or 6 5 steers weighing 1100 pounds each these figures indicate tho the wonderful efficiency of the dairy animal ns as nn an economical producer of human food princess carloton Carlot tn a cow owned by the dairy deportment department of the lie university of missouri IQ in one year produced more human food in her milk than Is contained in tile complete carcasses of foun steers weighing 1230 1250 pounds each this statement impossible ns as it aconis Is not only true but does doea not even do full justice to tile cow tile solids tit in the milk which aro are completely digestible aro are counted against tho the entire carcass ci as of the steer only part of which Is edible tho the total amount of dry matter in the milk was 2218 pounds all of which Is edible and digestible tile the steer with a live weight of 1250 pounds contained CO 50 per cent of water in tho the carcass leaving a total of pounds of dry dr matter in this dry matter of the steer to Is included hair and tilde bide bones and tendons organs of digestion and respiration in fact the en uro tiro antin animal nl a consi considerable derabin portion of which in ir not edible tho the analysts analysis of the steers carcass was waa made from son pies taken niter after tria treading ding v tip p to gather one balf of the complete completo carcass and Is not in any sense on esti motion of tile composition of the carcass princess carlotta produced produce tl proteins Bum sulli clent for more than three steers nearly fat enough for two ash enough to build tile skeletons for three and irk in addition pounds of milk sugar worth ns its much per pound for food its as ordinary sugar it Is because of this economical usa ns of food vint the lie dairy cow and riot not thy thu steer la Is kept on high bricea land all whai land is cheap and feed abundant ake le meat producing anti animals nals predominate but when the land becomes high lu value and feed expensive the tanner farmer turiaf to the delry airy cow duchess skylark ormsby lg Is tile the worlds champion butter producer tile the results of her consecutive days test conducted by tile lie minnesota agricultural college shows that she produced pounds of milk nearly 14 tons or over 23 21 times thries her ter own weight the butterfat contained in tills this years year milk yield weighed 1205 pounds at 35 cents A pound slie she produced worth of commercial butter tit in one year to her credit of worth of butter must bo be added over pounds of klitin milk and buttermilk about 14 1 t tons of manure inn nure and a calf which pay for her teed feed and care making the a pet profit to tho the owner dairy products second in val baue lue to the corn crop there are about dairy cows in the united states and the annual value of their products reaches tho the enormous sum of nearly only tho the corn crop exceeds the dairy products no na a source of income to tho the farmers of tho the nation neither the production of butter nor clice ige lins has kept up with tile tho increase of population in 1010 1910 there were 20 dairy cows in tho the united states tin an increase of about OW licad lend in id CO 60 years tills this wonderful growth in dairying and choose manufacturing fac turing has added enormously to the material wealth of every community nna and state where those these pursuits are carried on it has also been a wonderful old aid wherever tt it has been conducted intelligently telli gently in conserving fertility of the soil this one great advantage to tile wealth of the hardly bo be computed in dollars and coma cents in ISTO 1870 practically nil all of the butter and nearly all of tho the choose cheese except in the older states as new york and ohio were made on tho the form farm the average price of farm butter was nebout 15 cents and nearly all of it was sold or traded for dry goods and groceries nt at tile the country stores the export market for cheese governed tile price in now new york and ohio which practically were the fa 6 VALUE aOTH tow BETTER nona can 90 A Is L tk tow q only cheese producing states in the ua na uon on in 1875 there wis was a great pie oe coming of the car worked n speedy in tbt th market it placed wisconsin illinois and other oilier states on the dairy mail and opened up tile channels of export to their checcio and butter later came tho the cream separator which wits a great brent factor tit in the ho development of tho the dairy business since that hint taine aino dairying lina has been growing very rapidly points for the dairyman any mail to make success in tho the dairy business should boar bear in fit mind points it strict regularity in feeding and milking lull lilue 2 good pastures 8 at least ono one silo for winter feeding and otio ono with a smaller capacity tor for summer feeding 4 cows cowa that will rive give at least 1000 pounds of laillia or pounds of butter in it 11 benr 0 plenty of linge eo and when pastures fall sonio boino concentrates ns no cottonseed meat and gluten feeds 0 puro pure water ailigh producing product nR cows must linao large quantities of water if Is well suld said that hint it 1 Is 14 4 cheaper to barni lee rold cold water with it tank hooter heater ill alinn to allow the cow cov to warm it will ra 0 cent corn the water antik should fili be ba in a cozy sheltered sunny place M 7 clann acan and well barns and healthy cows dark dalip ste poorly ventilated barns barn anro anre ideal places for the development und and spread ot of tuberculosis 1 test the lie cows with etli the tuberculin test 2 cut new icv windows and let in tilt nil abundance of sunlight 8 9 proper ventilation 8 quietness nud and kindness loud talking sw swearing and rough handling anro not permitted in a well dalry dairy the average dairy cow of tills this coun try produces something like pounds ouaida ou iida of milk in a n benr and binately to IGO ICO pounds ot of butterfat COW GREATEST PRODUCER PRODUCE k or OF HUMAN FOOD t fool 14 THE MILK PRODUCED 01 THIS COW IN CN YEAR WA coval 1 to THE FOOD IN THC OF five 1100 0 teens this Is not profitable dairying yet yd farmers cannot greatly increase dairy production unless they apply the scalea and babcock test to their individual caws tind find out lie cows lint flint pay for their feed and those which do to not alio operative cooperative co abw cow testing ass ocla tion enables nil all the dalry dairy farmers of a 0 community to test all their cows witt an average of 25 members the cost ol of such an all association usually atno to 1 to per cow per year benefit of the cow testing association according to town lown bulletin no 12 2050 yearly records from different dairy bierds havo have been completed in jhc thc five cow testing associations tit in lown iowa which have been beca organized in the state since 1009 the average cow in the testing associations ciati clat ions ons produced pounds of butterfat per year at a net of after pay paying ing for the feed tit nt market prices less the cost of hauling if the milk cows of ioco produced as much butterfat per yeat its as tho the average cow in the cow testing associations it would moan mean I 1 in an increased cre ased production for tho the state of pounds of butterfat pet pel year worth nt at 30 cents per pound 3 tho the most profitable cow returned her owner a not net profit of tho poorest cow lacked 2502 of paying for her feed the cow testing association Is tin tilt best method of detecting the loafers 1 it tit tho herd it puts puta dairying on a business basis arouses tho the interest of tit alit owner its ills boys boya and hired man in till ali cows stirs up tip local pride by brIn bringino gInI the people of tho the community together toge to talk over their business rind and helpt heipt to make inako farm wark enjoyable and la in te restIng some boino people think that it to Is a hard job to milk cows and caro care for stock but we will an fand it just tile opposite 11 wo we will take nn an interest in the wort work and get our leads in the game all work Is ID drudgery unless we like it put the best wo we have into it arid um ua intelligence the cow cov has fins lifted many man a mortgage find and saved the homo home |